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> I also think both Microsoft and Google will discontinue their non-profit / education offerings by the end of the decade Not going to happen because both of t
by judge2020 5y ago
> I also think both Microsoft and Google will discontinue their non-profit / education offerings by the end of the decade
Not going to happen because both of them are buying Mindshare: Microsoft is trying to salvage their staple of being a must-have requirement for office IT with Excel/other MS Office (including Office Online) dominance, while Google is trying to take all of that away and get people hooked on the power of collaborative document/spreadsheet editing, now with Notion-style features like inline people mentions.
In general it seems like Google is winning in lower education with the advent of chromebooks, MS is winning on the higher education front (Uni staff don't want to move away from Office), and Google Workspace is winning on the Startup front, but I doubt either offerings are going to charge schools for their basic offerings and will instead opt to throw more new features into their own separately-subscribed SKUs (eg. Google Voice having a different per-user subscription cost).